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Meeting of the Congress – EU Committee of the Regions contact group

Meeting of the Congress – EU Committee of the Regions contact group[11/12/2012]

The joint group Congress – EU Committee of the Regions met on 10 December 2012 in Paris (France). Jean-Vincent PLACÉ (France/PES), member of the Committee of the Regions and Gunn Marit HELGESEN (Norway, EPP/CD), member of the Congress were respectively elected Chair and Vice-Chair of the Contact Group for a two-year term of office.
The agenda items also included the 2012-2016 priorities of the Congress and the political programmes of the Committee of the Regions for 2012-2015 together with the neighbourhood policies of both institutions. The participants also discussed a “pan-European approach to good governance” and in particular the appraisal of European Local Democracy Week, the fight against corruption at local and regional level, and the position paper on '“Devolution in the European Union and the place for local and regional self‐government in EU policy making and delivery”. Finally, the Congress programme of election monitoring in 2013 and co-operation between the two institutions in this field were presented.